Midwife Shugg McGowan Lampley, New Brockton, Alabama

Chester Higgins

1969; printed about 1973

  • Titles Midwife Shugg McGowan Lampley, New Brockton, Alabama (Proper)
  • Artist Chester Higgins, American, born 1946
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 13/16 in. (16.7 × 24.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by the Friends of American Art, AFI.20.2022
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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